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Comparing Fong And Mar Conducted Research On The Creator's Personality

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Introduction
Fong and Mar conducted research to see if a virtual avatar made online can depict the creator’s personality (2015). Bruzek relied on that study and two other opinions to voice what she took away from the research Fong and Mar collected (2015). Fong and Mar’s research and Bruzek’s article have similar facts and data to support their arguments but they reach different conclusions.
Arguments
Primary Source Fong and Mar hypothesized that online avatars can accurately represent an individual’s personality and friendship intentions with others (Fong and Mar, 2015). They wanted to research how avatars can portray personality profiles of the creator, and how accurate those profiles would be. Fong and Mar wanted to use the “Big” five traits: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism, to determine the accuracy of the profiles (2015).
Secondary Source
Bruzek’s argued that a digital avatar, whether it is supposed to represent you or not, can tell an individual about the creator’s personality. She wrote that her own Mii character didn’t have to look similar to her in order for someone to determine her personality (2015). She discussed how she believes the Big Five traits could accurately determine your personality traits. She argued that, according to Fong and Mar, some distinctions of the avatars made them more or less likely to be friends.
Comparison of Arguments
Bruzek and Fong and Mar’s arguments were similar in content and data. Bruzek

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